No more messages with Google Cast?

Configuration
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I’ve been trying for several days to install modified Zigbee2mqtt opening sensors in my mailbox to be alerted about mail and packages. I want to be notified via a message through Google Cast, and for a few days now, the message isn’t announced for part of the day, then it comes back. Any idea what could be causing this?

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Hi @elfedagger,

Are you sure it’s a Google Cast issue, and not a Zigbee detection (or range) issue?

If you send a Telegram message at the same time, do you always receive the message?

Other possibilities:

  • Chromecast IP changing. Gladys discovers devices via mDNS and then works with the IP. If the DHCP lease expires and the device changes IP, casting fails until the next scan. Set a static lease on the router, and re-scan on the integration side.
  • Device busy (already casting music or in a speaker group), the message doesn’t get inserted.
  • WiFi power saving on Nest Minis, which become unreachable after a long idle?
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The Zigbee port is working very well and I receive the alert message every time.
I found this in the logs.

2026-08-07T07:49:26.535347399Z config: {
2026-08-07T07:49:26.535361536Z url: '``https://api.gladysgateway.com/tts/token``',
2026-08-07T07:49:26.536518711Z data: {
2026-08-07T07:49:26.536530546Z status: 429,
2026-08-07T07:49:26.536552128Z error_code: 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS',
2026-08-07T07:49:26.536565890Z error_message: 'Too many requests this month.'
2026-08-07T07:49:26.536578236Z }

Too many requests this month?

It still doesn’t work this morning.

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Hey, I edited your message to remove a Gladys Plus token that was floating around :smiley:

Indeed, 500 requests per month are included in the plan, and you’ve exceeded this limit!

I’m going to increase this limit because now, with the AI agent, if you make voice requests to Gladys, it counts towards this limit.

How many voice announcements do you make per month on average?

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I have two announcements on Sunday evening, one for the trash bin to take out and one medical, and one announcement every evening if we left any windows open upstairs. We’re quite far from 500, even though I’ve been playing around with my mailbox these past few days. I’m not using voice-activated AI at the moment.

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I’ve reset your limit! And I’ve set the limit to 3000, so you’re good to go :wink:

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Thanks. What’s strange is that over the past few days I’ve had outages and then it started working again.

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What is this extra Gladys token lying around?
Maybe I should clean up, I have scenes that should announce things and aren’t working.

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You had left a token in the logs you posted, nothing too serious it’s a temporary token that’s probably already expired, but you need to be careful about what you post in public :wink:

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I’m having trouble figuring out what’s dangerous for me in these logs. I don’t understand much of what’s in there. :sweat_smile: